There are a couple of points where this article still needs a little bit of polishing, but... dang! I wouldn't have thought it was written by a 13-year-old who looks like this:
I'll tell you what else. I'll bet you a hundred dollars to a doughnut Kyle actually knows how to talk to an adult. Intelligently and sociably.
I'm thinking right now of the 13-year-old public-schooled boy who used to live in our old neighborhood... {shudder}